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I grew some green wasabi radishes because I like radishes to have some heat and they are too fucking spicy for my white ass.

Challerhocker… and The World is a Better Place…

Disclosure: Because I did some volunteer work for the San Francisco Cheesemonger Invitational, Adam and Ashley kindly sent me a box of cheese as a thank you. In the box were Taleggio, Alp Blossom and Challerhocker. I had sampled Challerhocker in  the “perfect bites” at the 2016 NYC CMI, but this was my first time tasting it naked.

A little background:

From 1914 to 1999, the Swiss Cheese Union…

The Ultimate Cheese-themed Halloween Costume: Chällerhocker Kid!

Chällerhocker has long been one of my favorite cheeses, not just for the exceptional flavor profile and consistency brought to us by cheesemaker Walter Rass, but for the delightfully creepy child that graces the label. Indeed, that label has become somewhat legendary in the cheese world, and any monger worth their curds will know what you’re talking about if you reference the “Chällerhocker kid”. 

It’s distributed by Columbia Cheese — whose owner, Adam Moskowitz, coined the phrase “Holla For Chällerhocker” — and now they’ve given the world the perfect cheese-themed Halloween costume. Behold: The Chällerhocker Mask! Guaranteed to freak out your kids, get confused looks from non-turophiles, and high-fives from Alpine cheese lovers.